Although elected with a clear mandate to decrease Taiwan’s trade dependence on mainland China, President Tsai Ing-wen met with limited success in her attempt during the first term of her presidency. Indeed, China’s proportion of Taiwan’s overall exports reached an all-time high (43.9 percent) in 2020.
However, even without a...
Taipei , April 30: Chinese President Xi Jinping has kicked off his six-day trip to Europe amid rising tensions over trade with the European Union and concerns over Beijing's support for Russia.
Xi's visit, which started on Sunday (April 28), is his first to the continent since 2019, which will...
NEW DELHI, March 6 - India on Wednesday opened a new naval base on its Indian Ocean island close to the Maldives, as ties with Male remain tense and New Delhi jostles anew with China for influence in the region.
INS Jatayu, the new base on Minicoy Island, on India's...
The European Union and India have strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and emphasised the need for strengthening international cooperation in dealing with counter-terrorism challenges, stated the Ministry of External Affairs in a press release.
EU and India focused on this issue at the 14th Counter-Terrorism Dialogue...
"The PRC has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined," Wray said at a congressional hearing on China on Wednesday.
"In fact, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intelligence analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, China's hackers would still outnumber FBI cyber personnel...
TAIPEI: Taipei's defence ministry said it had detected 21 Chinese military aircraft around the self-ruled island since 8:15 am (0015 GMT) on Saturday, a month before Taiwan's May 20 inauguration of incoming president Lai Ching-te.
"17 aircraft (of the 21) crossed the median line and its extension, entered our northern,...
Islamabad , December 25: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday announced that it will challenge the Election Commission of Pakistan's decision to declare its intra-party polls as unconstitutional and revoke the 'bat' symbol in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday.
The decision of the PTI comes after the electoral...
Amidst conflagrations in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is signing big-ticket deals to purchase Cheongung M-SAM II missile defense systems from South Korea and import artillery munition from India.
The deals were inked during the ongoing Riyadh Defense Expo.
Indian defense producer Munitions India Limited (MIL) has won a big $225...
Amid ongoing delays attributed to the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, India has been informed by Russia that the remaining two squadrons of the S-400 long-range air defence missile system will be supplied by August 2026.
A deal was signed between Russia and India for the procurement of five...
NEW DELHI: The Army’s assertive stand in Ladakh since the fatal border clash in 2020 has emboldened the nomadic tribes to reclaim their traditional winter grazing grounds, leading to incidents of arguments with Chinese troops.
Unlike in the past, graziers are venturing deep into their traditional grazing areas and standing...
